Oligarchy in the Americas

Joe Foweraker is Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford, and Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the former Professor of Latin American Politics and Head of the School of Interdisciplinary Areas Studies at the University of Oxford, and author of Polity: Demystifying Democracy in Latin America and Beyond (2018).

• Part I: Modes of Oligarchic Rule in Latin America.- Chapter 1: Oligarchic Rule in the Americas, South to North.- Chapter 2: Oligarchy and the Patrimonial State.- Chapter 3: Modes of Oligarchic Rule in Latin America.- Part II: Modes of Oligarchic Rule in the United States.- Chapter 4: First Mode - The Federal Patrimonial State.- Chapter 5: Second Mode - Oligarchic Alliance and Party Politics.- Chapter 6: Third Mode - Oligarchy Transformed, the Republic Reduced.- Part III: Comparing Oligarchic Rule, South and North.- Chapter 7: Polity in the Americas.

“Oligarchy in the Americas provides some of the pieces necessary for making these distinctions and accomplishes this while also drawing enlightening conclusions with a unique comparison between Argentina and the US. Whether and how political exclusion works has been and will continue to be the source of great contention. Case studies like this make a good read and track the path dependent elements of the exclusions to come.” (Louis E. Esparza, Fulbright Chronicles, Vol. 1 (4), 2023)